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Nick Admussen

Nick Admussen is an assistant professor of Chinese Literature at Cornell University. His fourth chapbook of poetry, Neither Nearing Nor Departing, is now available for preorder from Two of Cups Press. Floral Mutter, his translations of the Sichuan poet Ya Shi, won a PEN/Heim grant and are forthcoming from Zephyr Press in April 2018. His website is nickadmussen.com.

Spring 2010

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By Nick Admussen

The first night, your rigid body and sobbing, exchanged for the story about finding the star chart in the sea chart. I trade even that for the story about inside […]